theoretician

Definition

Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.

Etymology

From theoretic + -ician.

Example Sentences

• "“They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes."